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Slippery Marvin's avatar

As a late Gen Z guy, I loved this article. You nailed it.

The point you made about dating is really important and it's something I wish more older guys understood. I see a lot of girls around my age who are also struggling and I've started to realise how difficult finding love is for many of them too. Whilst we are far from allies now, in future I'd love to build some sort of alliance with these girls to create a dating culture which works for normal people.

I saw you comment elsewhere that you thought straight guys were more whiny and I wanted to add my (whiny straight guy) perspective. In dating, gay guys my age appear to have it much easier, dating apps seem to work for them whereas the apps really don't work for many or even most straight guys. Gay guys are praised for expressing their sexuality in ways which straight men are attacked for.

As strange or unbelievable as it sounds, it seems far more socially acceptable in my age group for me to go and hit on a guy rather than a woman.

Thanks for taking the time to write this. I'm trying to find hope instead of nihilism and this article was what I needed to read.

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sunshine moonlight's avatar

As a zoomer, I feel my generation has already irrevocably fried our brains to a certain degree with the internet and electronic devices, but there's hope for gen alpha. When we have kids (which seems like it'll mostly happen at a later stage than it did for earlier generations and at a lower rate), I hope we find out what millennial parents will have done to prevent their gen alpha kids from ending up like us

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